Hi James,

MLAG or MC-LAG would allow you to have LACP across multiple switches on your 
side, with a single switch on the customer side. They would see your gear as a 
single LACP peer. I’m not sure if the Nexus 3064 supports it or not – it 
appears some Nexus gear can, but I couldn’t find anything specific on the 3064.

Regards,
Philip Loenneker | Network Engineer | TasmaNet
40-50 Innovation Drive, Dowsing Point, Tas 7010, Australia
P: 1300 792 711
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From: AusNOG [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of James 
Cunningham
Sent: Friday, 20 April 2018 9:18 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [AusNOG] How to setup something like LACP across two switches

Hello Fellow Ausnoggers,

I'm hoping that I can quickly pick the brain of someone more knowledgeable in 
data centre networking than myself.

We have a customer in one of our racks in Equinix who has a single network 
switch, and some servers connected to it. We currently have two connections 
from our switch to the customer's switch, with LACP for redundancy (and as a 
side effect, we get a slight bandwidth boost for 2 x 1Gbps connections, which 
is a slight bonus).

We would like to improve this by putting in two network switches on our end, to 
protect again a single switch failure on our side, but the customer will still 
have one single network switch.

I'm pretty sure we can't do LACP with this style of setup - so what would 
people recommend to achieve redundancy here? Main thing is that the connection 
needs to auto-failover if a network switch fails, or if one of the uplinks 
fails.

I have created the attached diagram which illustrates what we are trying to do.

Can anyone please help? I'll owe a beer at the Next AusNOG meetup!

Thanks

James
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